Photographs

Scope and Contents Family papers of Jesse Brown (1776-1847) of Washington County, Va., and Carter County, Tenn., and descendants, especially Jesse Brown's son Elijah Brown (1817-1891) of Blount County, Tenn., as well as his family and descendants. The gift includes four Bibles, three having family records (Jesse Brown, Enoch Dexter Brown, and W. R. Hood-S. A. Rule). The collection includes a handmade record book on Jesse Brown's family, as well as land transaction documents regarding tracts in the following...

Scope and Contents 4 framed photographs (ca. 1960s?). Bill Tracy Photography: Spence Shoe Shop, Kimball's, Fowler's, Penny's, The Knox, and others. Glass is loose in the frame. Photograph is faded and is 19 x 15" in a 26 x 22" frame. Day view. Bill Tracy Photography: Corner of Gay Street and Clinch looking north toward the Sterchi Building. Day view with buses, shoppers, and cars. 19 x 15" color photograph in 27 x 23" frame. Bill Tracy Photography: Market Square, night view, during Dogwood Arts Festival....

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Jim Thompson Photographs ledgers account books, daily cash books.

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Jim Thompson Oversize Mounted Photographs: His Traveling Exhibit Material 3 boxes of Jim Thompson oversize photographs. All were originally mounted on heavy mat board and were a part of a traveling display that he used during his talks. Photographs are numbered and several have captions attached. A list is available in Box 1. A second list, John S. Van Gilder’s list of identifications for the “Panorama of Knoxville in 1865” (in 4 sections) is also in Box 1. Knoxville subjects.

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Jim Thompson Co., Thompson Photograph Albums. World War I, Great Smoky Mountains.

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8"x10” b&w photographs taken by Jim Thompson’s Studio. 128 photographs, most backed with linen. Many have descriptions on the back. Nine folders. See list with box. Stereographs (photographs).

Scope and Contents 215 postcards, 13 pcs. WWI papers, 9 photographs, misc. items. Subjects: World War I, postcards, photographs of WWI soldier in uniform, Mrs. Belle Jones, Robert Taylor Jones, YMCA mail to soldiers, photograph-postcards of military scenes in Europe, Knoxville postcards, Co. C, 5th Division, 7th US Engineers, US Expeditionary Forces, WWI letter, ephemera. Knoxville postcards: The Hotel Farragut (2 copies), the Masonic Temple, Holston National Bank, C.B. Atkins Residence, Lawson McGhee Library,...

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Slides of historic Knoxville assembled by Joe Billig of Knoxville with help from Charles Suddarth Kelly of New York, former Knoxvillian.

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Two men, two women in living room. Photo by Joe Canady, 2424 Linden Avenue, Knoxville, Tenn. B&W 8x10”

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Joe L. Parrott (1905-1989) photographs and negatives. b&w slightly oversize format negatives. Knoxville and East Tennessee. A few prints mounted on board. Parrott was the theater artist for the Tennessee Theatre and Publix Theaters and founder of Joe Parrott Sign Co. in 1932.

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Letters of John and Rhoda Campbell Williams (Knoxville) to son Rufus Morgan Williams at Edgehill School, Princeton, N.J., 1864-1865, 1867 + one letter from Thomas L. Williams to brother, n.d. [1864]. 14 letters + one envelope. Received from donor June 23, 1987: copy photograph by Knaffl & Bro. of Rhoda Campbell Morgan Williams + photocopy of picture of Col. Joseph Williams.

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Material related to John E. Acuff, Jr. (9/1/1922-5/24/2010) Includes photographs, correspondence, ephemera, deeds, wills, artifacts, ephemera, and genealogy research.

Scope and Contents 1 - Photograph of Phipps King [1899-1902] (boy with blond hair and big collar 1 - Photograph of Samuel Lee King Jr. [1895-1959] (boy with curly hair) 1 - Photograph of John Goodson King [1903-1973] (boy with cane, later husband of Nell Jansen King) 1 - Photograph of Annie Phipps King, aged 18 [1874, Rotherwood-1966] 2 - Photographs of Annie Phipps King, seated portraits 1 - King family crest 1 - Phipps family crest 1 - McKinney family crest 1 - Campbell-Rhea family crest 1 - Lanier crest 1 -...

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John Henry Creekmore (died July 17, 1912) funeral procession with horse-drawn hearse, horses and buggies. Lafollette, Tenn. Original photograph + 2 copy photographs. Also, 120 copy neg. + photocopy of clipping re: Creekmore’s death.

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Two 8 x 10” sepia-colored copy prints of: 1. John Housley Cigar Co. man with cigar driving car pulling the first air conditioned 5th wheel trailer in Knoxville (according to donor). Vehicle was used to drive clients and potential customers around. [ca. 1932]. 2. John Housley Cigar Co. building and business cars / trucks and motorcycle, Hav-A-Tampa signs. . [ca. 1932].

Scope and Contents Collection of Fain family papers from East Tennessee. Includes: diaries of Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain (1816-1892), dating from 1834 to 1892; military papers of Richard G. Fain; papers from the Mossy Creek Cotton Mill, 1862-1879; account books, Bible entries for Fain and Anderson families; photographs; almanacs; recipes; slaves to Liberia (folder 31); Rhea family genealogy; Elizabeth Rhea Anderson diary; Hiram Fain diary; patent medicine circulars; ephemera. 11 boxes of processed material....

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Papers of Professor John R. Lowry, Knoxville, Tenn., Ca. 1880s-1923. Includes material related to Park City School; memorial resolutions for John R. Lowry and wife; orations; essays; two photographs.

Scope and Contents Six photographs (2 are duplicates) of the home of John Sevier. Donor says there were taken by Nancy Rosette (Etta) Myers Slatery (1888-1965). 3 1/8 x 2 1/8” mounted on 5X4” mattes. SPC 2012.005.001 John Sevier’s Plantation Home, Pickens Gap Pike near junction of Neubert Springs Pike. + enlarged copy print, glued into file folder. SPC 2012.005.002 O.L. Slatery near John Sevier Home. SPC 2012.005.003 John Sevier old home near Neubert Springs. SPC 2012.005.004 John Sevier’s smokehouse near...

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John Webb residence, southeast corner of Church Avenue and Central, Knoxville, Tenn. Ca. 1931. B&W 5x7” copy prints.

Scope and Contents Collection of John Wesley Reams, Lowland Community, Hamblen County, Tenn. He was graduated from Mossy Creek College (now Carson-Newman College) in June 1879. He was a music teacher and a violinist. Collection consists of sheet music, entertainment programs, newspaper clippings (including Ted Shawn Dance Company and Lola McCormack), 1894-95 list of coffins sold, etc. 13 photographs received Aug. 18, 1981 (Joppa; New Market train wreck, 1917*; Mule Day; Asbury Marble Quarry). Snapshots...

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John Z.C. Thomas at Hartsville Hearings, Courthouse, Nashville, Tenn. On 2nd day of limited appearance. Late October 1975. Photograph from The Tennessean. B&W 8x10” + 120 copy neg.

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Johnson City and East Tennessee photographs by J. A. Cargill (Cargille) and W. K. Hodges and others) (albums)

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Collection contains research on Sevier County, Tenn., families and subjects. Includes: articles written by Joseph (Joe) A. Sharp, Sevier County Historian, including his notes, research and correspondence with other researchers; newspapers and clippings; photographs; eleven Sevier County Chancery Court cases (saved from destruction by Joe Sharp in August 1951). The collection is divided into four sections: genealogy; subjects; newspapers; Chancery Court cases.

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Boxes 1-8: 109 folders containing genealogical information on Ownby, Owensby, Owenby and related families, researched and compiled by Joyce Haige. Arranged individually, geographically, as well as by secondary family name. Includes some photographs as well as negatives. Boxes 9-10: 7 notebooks which contain census, public, and church records from 18 states, with emphasis on Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. One of the notebooks contains photographs.

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Scrapbook with photographs and clippings and papers re: American Library Association (ALA), Washington DC office. Jullia Bennett (later Mrs. John Armistead) was director of the ALA Washington Office.

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Karns School exterior ca. 1914. sepia 8x10”.

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Diary of year 1915 while author was in high school. Photograph album with black -and-white photographs dated on back from 1921 to 1940. Kenneth was later a Knoxville lawyer specializing in real estate matters.

Scope and Contents Jena Glenn Waller, Hopkinsville, Ky.; Ed Pearce (in uniform), Indianapolis, IN; R. deMoody (?). Lexington, Ky., October 1890; 3 young men “Three of a Kind” Alling (?), Milray, Graham. June 13, 1894; young woman, ? Copeland, Louisville, Ky.; Lizzie Williamson and Dudley (woman and child), Lexington, Ky.; Morris Willis and Elizabeth Willis (children), Lexington, Ky.; Libbie Wilson (young woman in hood and cape with cross), Lexington, Ky.; Ben LaBree, Louisville, Ky., October 12, 1896; young...

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Kinsloe Daguerreotypes in cases. 4 items. Thought to be J.B.G. (James Bannister Gibson) Kinsloe and others. Two of {J.B.G. Kinsloe?}, one unidentified woman (badly damaged) , and one unidentified young African American woman (in back of case, printed: ‘Holmes, Booth & Haydens' Daguerreotype, Photographic and Ambrotype Goods’. No location or date.) J.B.G. Kinsloe was editor of a Knoxville newspaper during the Civil War, in business with W.G. Brownlow.

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Genealogy of Kirtley and allied families. The majority of the collection contains research on Kirtley, Thompson, Matthews, Roberts, Flora and some research on Early, Harbour, Mitchell, Morris, Rowan, Sims, and Jamison families. The research was done by Gordon Kirtley and his late wife. The collection includes one oversize Kirtley family chart (in Map Room); photographs; photocopies of maps; Hurricane Bridge and Huntington, WV, material; and two Civil War medals for James Alexander Flora.